North Korea claims to have conducted its first-ever nuclear test

When

9 Oct 2006

Kind

Nuclear test

Coordinates

41.29° N, 129.13° E

Description

North Korea claims to have conducted its first-ever nuclear test.

Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, 2006 North Korean nuclear test.

On 9 October 2006, North Korea performed its first nuclear test, detonating a plutonium-based device underground. The test made North Korea the tenth country to develop and the eighth to openly test nuclear weapons.

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